March 21, 2020

Couple's skate interlude in the Friday Night Lou Reed Boogaloo

Just remember different people have peculiar tastes

March 21, 2020

"My life was saved by Rock and Roll." Lou Reed

March 21, 2020

This is my favorite song from probably my favorite live album ever released

So well played on a flawless take on an album with such a clean well engineered sound. Might be the best live record ever made

I'm talking about Heroin from Rock and Roll Animal, RCA Records, released in 1974.

Cannot over state how much I love this cut

"And I guess that I just don't know"

March 21, 2020

Friday Night Lou Reed Boogaloo - Continued!

Also this overlooked gem

March 21, 2020

BootinUp done kicked off my Friday Party From Home Rock & Roll Lou Reed Boogaloo! (tm)

Starting off with the most depressing optimistic happy song ever made

March 20, 2020

They say that living well is the best revenge

I say bullshit - the best revenge is revenge

March 20, 2020

I have been coming back to her covers all day - This one is so so good

March 19, 2020

Gems on VHS has been gathering artists in a virtual battle of the bands

And they've released atop 10 list of videos. Anyone can listen, but patreons can vote to narrow it down to a top 3. I am a patreon sponsor for Gems on VHS and if you enjoy folk/Americana maybe throw 'e a couple buck as well.

https://gemsonvhs.com/gemsintherough-semifinalists

March 19, 2020

Remember Hole? Remember how much shit was sprayed at Courtney Love?

Let me tell ya, it bothered me quite a bit then, and it still does.

Well, I'm exiled to the living room and since I have nothing but time and high speed internet - I'm gonna learn yinz something.

Hole was a fantastic band and Courtney was a great song writer who never got the respect she earned.

If you have to separate your preconceptions from these actual songs, maybe play them in a separate tab without watching the videos. Just listen please.

To me that was the hardest part of this argument - No one would listen to her.

They'd see her face, get unreasonably angry and mutter some misguided bullshit about Kurt Cobain.

As if a depressed junky committing suicide is somehow a shocking indictment of the junky's spouse. An event that somehow disqualifies her from a fair shot at success.

So FFS it's a couple decades later now - So just listen





I believe that Courtney took the bullets for a decade's worth of women rockers and that allowed folks like the The Donnas, Garbage, Veruca Salt, and The Breeders to operate without the normal misogyny Rock and Roll puts in women's way.

She was like the Zinc Plate between a ships impeller and it's driveshaft. It's there to get corroded and in so doing protect the other components

She took the damage. It was awful

March 19, 2020

Between conference calls - listening to odd songs to pass the time